Check-hook for harness



(-Np Model.)

G. W. HINKLEL.

Check-Hook for Harness.

No. 227,435. Patented May 11, 1880.

PETERS. FNOTO-LITHOBRIFMER. WASHINGTON. U. Gv

INITED STATES PATENT OFF-Ion.

GEORGE w. HINKLE, OF MENDION, MICHIGAN.

CHECK-HOOK FOR HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 227,435, dated May 11, 1880.

Application filed March 25, 1880. '(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HINKLE, of Mendon, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Hooks for Harness; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in check-hooks for harness; and it consists in placing inside of one end of the hook a piece of rubber, which may be attached either to the end of the hook itself or placed in a recess in the top of the screw-bolt which unites the hook to the saddle, and which rubber has a pin or stud projecting outward from it, and which stud is formed to play back and forth so as to let the check-rein be drawn out of the hook, and yet will prevent the check from becoming accidentally detached, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and simple means for preventing the cheek-rein coming loose from the hook, as it is very apt to do when the horse throws back his head, and thus prevent the annoyance of having to get out of the vehicle and readjust it.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section of one form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same, taken at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows another form of my invention.

A represents acheck-hook, of the usual form, and which is to be attached to the saddle B in any suitable manner. Made in the head of the bolt 0, which passes down through the saddle and the hook, is a suitable recess, D, and in this recess is placed a block of rubber, E. This rubber fits the recess so tightly that there is no possibility of its becoming displaced while thebolt is in position. Embodied in this piece of rubber, and projecting upward through the slot in the top of the bolt, is apin or projection, I, which is free to play back and .forth in a line with the slot through the head of the bolt. This pin, as the check is being introduced into the hook, will bend forward toward the horses head, so as to let the rein pass over it; but as soon as it is left free to moveit snaps back into position again, and serves as a stop to prevent the check-rein from becoming acpulled into the hook past the projection, and

the projection placed.

Whether this projection is held in the bottom of the hook, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or attached to the hook, it forms a very simple and effective stop for preventing the checkrein from becoming loosened from any cause, and thus saves the necessity of the driver having to get out of the vehicle to fasten it.

Having thus. described my invention, I claim 1. In combination with a cheek-hook for harness, a base or block of rubber and a pin or projection extendingtherefrom, so as to form a stop to prevent the check-rein from becoming unhooked, substantially as shown.

2. The combination of a check-hook with a bolt passing down through it and the saddle, and having a recess in its top to receive a block of rubber, and a slot through its upper end for the pin or projection I to play back and forth in, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of March, 1880.

GEORGE W. HINKLE.

will notallow it to be dis- Witnesses LEONIDAS G. WooLLEY, J. B. ANDERSON. 

